Baby Gender Guide

Start Planning the Family of Your Dreams…

Skip to: Content | Sidebar | Footer

Baby Gender Selection – Things You Can Do

29 January, 2010 (06:45) | Articles | By: broer

OK, so if you have found this page, you are obviously thinking about having a baby and you are looking for a baby gender selection technique to assure you conceive the gender of your choice. Now, you just need to know the steps to take to assure that is the gender you conceive. That is what I am here to share with you today, the natural techniques you can use to increase the chances that your baby will be the gender you desire.

Now, I know that the process of baby gender selection can seem like it might be very complicated, but it is actually quite simple when you know exactly what it is you are trying to do. When you are trying to choose the gender of your baby, what you are actually doing is choosing the sperm you want to fertilize your egg. You are choosing between the two different chromosomes sets that sperm carry. For example, if you want a boy you want the sperm with the X,Y chromosomes to fertilize your egg and if you want a girl you want a sperm with the X,X chromosomes to fertilize your egg. And that’s it! That is the only thing you are trying to make happen during the process of baby gender selection.

So essentially, in order to assure that you conceive the baby of your chosen gender you must eliminate a large number of the sperm with the chromosome combination of the gender you don’t want, thus leaving all the sperm with the correct chromosomes ready, willing, and able to fertilize your egg.

Read more »

How to Determine a Baby’s Gender

29 January, 2010 (06:24) | Gender Predictor | By: broer

If you would like to plan ahead during your pregnancy, you may wish to find out the sex of your unborn baby. Once you know the gender, you can buy appropriate clothing and items for the nursery. However, beware of old wives tales that state you can predict the sex by the way that you are carrying or the heart rate of the baby. Keep in mind that some methods used to determine a baby’s sex are not 100 percent accurate and you could be in for a surprise come delivery day.
Step 1
Use an over-the-counter gender predictor test kit. Kits like IntelliGender are sold in pharmacies and can be used as early as 10 weeks to predict sex. The kit requires a urine sample and results take approximately 10 minutes. According to the manufacturer, the accuracy of the test is approximately 82 percent.
Step 2
Make an appointment for your 20 week ultrasound. At about the halfway point of your pregnancy, you will get an ultrasound in order to review the baby’s development. Many physical abnormalities can be detected during the ultrasound.
Step 3
Ask the technician to let you know the gender. It is likely that the ultrasound technician will ask you prior to the scan whether or not you want to know the baby’s sex.
Step 4
Wait for the technician to scan the baby’s genital area. If the technician is able to view the area, she can let you know the gender. If the fetus is not in a good position, you will not be able to find out the sex at this appointment.
Step 5
Find out the sex during you amniocentesis appointment. If you are over a certain age or potential fetal abnormalities are suspected, amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling may be performed. Since these tests examine the chromosomes on the baby, the sex can be accurately determined. During these procedures, a needle withdraws amniotic fluid and it is sent to the lab for analysis. You may need to wait up to a week for the results. At this time, you can request that the sex of the baby be identified.

If you would like to plan ahead during your pregnancy, you may wish to find out the sex of your unborn baby. Once you know the gender, you can buy appropriate clothing and items for the nursery. However, beware of old wives tales that state you can predict the sex by the way that you are carrying or the heart rate of the baby. Keep in mind that some methods used to determine a baby’s sex are not 100 percent accurate and you could be in for a surprise come delivery day.

Step 1
Use an over-the-counter gender predictor test kit. Kits like IntelliGender are sold in pharmacies and can be used as early as 10 weeks to predict sex. The kit requires a urine sample and results take approximately 10 minutes. According to the manufacturer, the accuracy of the test is approximately 82 percent.

Read more »

Is There A Natural Way To Select My Baby’s Gender?

29 January, 2010 (06:07) | Gender Predictor | By: broer

The fact of the matter is that the advances that we have made in terms of medical science in the last century is staggering. Yet, some of those advances can, in many ways, be a little bit frightening. In some ways, we seem to be tinkering with things that it just doesn’t seem natural to tinker with. Sometimes, we use science to change things or to make things happen a certain way that, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t really necessary or even ethical. In other cases, there are perfectly natural ways to perform some tasks that we readily give over to medicine. In terms of trying to conceive, we know that we can select our baby’s gender during In Vitro Fertilization. However, most of us don’t have the capacity or the desire to spend tens of thousands of dollars on IVF just to select our baby’s gender.
Fortunately, there may be natural ways to select your baby’s gender. While natural ways to select your baby’s gender may not have been proven in clinical studies to be effective, many women nevertheless have experienced some degree or another of success in selecting their baby’s gender through these means.
Some of the most common natural ways to select your baby’s gender have to do with the timing of intercourse. Specifically, they have to do with the timing of intercourse as it relates to the timing of ovulation. It is thought that if you have intercourse 2 and a half or more days before ovulating, you are more likely to have a girl, whereas if you have intercourse less than 2 and a half days before ovulating, you are more likely to have a boy. In addition, you can select your baby’s gender naturally by doing certain things both before and during intercourse to make it more likely that you will have a certain gender.
Most of these natural ways to select your baby’s gender are based on some relatively solid scientific information, such as the difference between “boy” sperm and “girl” sperm. Using natural methods of selecting your baby’s gender may not be as reliable as medical methods in the long run, but they are certainly less complicated, and less expensive as well.

The fact of the matter is that the advances that we have made in terms of medical science in the last century is staggering. Yet, some of those advances can, in many ways, be a little bit frightening. In some ways, we seem to be tinkering with things that it just doesn’t seem natural to tinker with. Sometimes, we use science to change things or to make things happen a certain way that, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t really necessary or even ethical. In other cases, there are perfectly natural ways to perform some tasks that we readily give over to medicine. In terms of trying to conceive, we know that we can select our baby’s gender during In Vitro Fertilization. However, most of us don’t have the capacity or the desire to spend tens of thousands of dollars on IVF just to select our baby’s gender.

Fortunately, there may be natural ways to select your baby’s gender. While natural ways to select your baby’s gender may not have been proven in clinical studies to be effective, many women nevertheless have experienced some degree or another of success in selecting their baby’s gender through these means.

Read more »

Dietary Choices May Impact the Gender of Your Child

28 January, 2010 (17:33) | Articles | By: broer

Dietary-ChoicesWhile there are many different things that can decide the gender of your future child, the dietary choices you make may have a big impact. Natural gender selection relies on a few different techniques to help increase the odds of having either a boy or a girl. While these methods are not 100% reliable, most couples find that they do end up with the gender they wanted. At the end of the day, it is a 50/50 chance, but there are a few things you can do to swing the percentage in your favor.

The foods that you eat can affect the future gender of your child for a variety of different reasons. The main one is that your body’s PH needs to be at a certain level for each type of gender. The sperm that carry the chromosomes that decide gender require a different PH for a successful trip towards fertilization.

Read more »

Timing Intercourse to Choose the Gender

28 January, 2010 (16:52) | Articles | By: broer

While there are no guarantees when it comes to natural gender selection, there are a few things that can be done to increase the likelihood of having a little boy or a little girl. If you are specifically wanting a boy or girl, it certainly doesn’t hurt to try a few natural techniques. You may not get the gender you want, but it sure is fun trying and the result is the same regardless – a happy and healthy baby, and that is what really matters.

In order to understand how the timing of when you have sex can impact the gender of your child it is important to look at two different things – first, how ovulation works and second, how the differences in sperm affect this timing. Let’s look at ovulation first.

Every month, there is a window of fertility that is approximately five days long. Three days prior to ovulation to one day following ovulation are the best times to conceive. Remember, the egg only has 24 hours of viability, and that sperm can live for up to five days in the reproductive tract.

Read more »